“Each Christmas, my mother made lots of these tender butter cookies and stored them in clean coffee cans. When she passed away, I started giving our kids a can of these sentimental sweets. --Jane Garing, Talladega, Alabama”

This is an excellent and easy cookie. I followed the recipe exactly. There is definitely a light almond flavor if you use 1tsp of flavoring, similar to the cookies that you would find in your Chinese restaurants, but for those of you that are wanting a really strong almond flavored cookie, then you may want to increase it to 2tsp like other reviewers did. I really like the fact that the saltiness very gently stood out, giving it that salty/sweet flavor. My husband loved them and mentioned that they tasted "just as I would expect them to taste". He said they would be good in the morning with coffee too. My only recommendation would be to go very lightly on the egg white rub. I got a little carried away, and made it a little too thick on a few cookies, which caused a blotchy, brown appearance. Just give it a very light, equal coating and it will give a nice shiny appearance on top. Great cookie!!!

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I loved this recipe! After my first (and failed) batch, I had a friend come over and help me. This time, I decided not to listen to the other reviewers and add only one teaspoon of almond extract, like the recipe said. When it came out, my two kids tasted it again and they could not stop eating, even if we were supposed to save it for my kids' Christmas party!

Reviewer:

I think these cookies are good - do they taste like I remember the restauarants serving in the 40s and 50s - not sure but I do know that they did need more almond. I added the 1 tsp. amount and would increase it to 2 tsp. I did add 1 tsp. of vanilla -and probably would do that again along with the 2 tsp. of almond flavoring. Also not very sweet which for me is OK. Instead of sliced almonds I put one salted whole almond from a can I had - and it looked more like I remember the cookies looking as a kid. I also put the egg white on before the almond as suggested by another reviewer and then did it again after I put on the almond piece. Would recommend this recipe.

Reviewer:

Double the almond extract, I threw a spash of high quality vanilla in - these are spectacular!! did the whole thing in the food processor and threw is 2 hands full of almonds since I did not have sliced in the cupboard. UBER EASY!! Just pulling them out of the oven this morning and do not think they will make it to desert tonight!! MMMMMMMM!

Reviewer:

This is a good, light cookie to have. I really wanted something with almond in it and this did the trick. After reading other reviews, I did double the amount of almond extract in them, and they came out beautifully. This is definitely one I'll be using again.